Dried Up Brain

Episode 35 - A Whole Boat Full of Space Idiots

It's the second half of Neilvember and we're talking about The Sandman: Overture.

Episode 34 - Is This About Grape Jelly?

Stay out of the Splash Zone™ because we got a real Wet Book™ on our hands! We're talking about Neil Gaiman's 2013 novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also touch on the His Dark Materials trilogy and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Episode 33 - There's Such A Thing As A Zeta Beam

We've reached the end of The Saga of the Swamp Thing. Join as as we follow our big, green friend through the last leg of his journey home.

Episode 32 - Pumpkin Spice Laundry Soap

We're kicking off the official month of pumpkins, candy corn, and murderous monsters by talking about Norman Partridge's Dark Harvest. 

Episode 31 - His Many Tubers

This episode is all about volume five of Saga of the Swamp Thing. We follow our floral hero out of the swamp and into the city of Gotham for a story about how struggle between love and an oppressive society can turn into a mythical battle between man and nature.

Episode 30 - The Monster is Poetry

We're taking to the sea and talking about Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville. It's a surprisingly complex little story full of hot sailors and powerful punches. We also take a look at the 2019 Hugo Award Winners.

Episode 29 - Me and the Boys at the Shores of Hell

We're talking about the fourth volume of Swamp Thing and that means the boys are back in town. Of course by "the boys" I mean "Swamp Thing and John Constantine" and by "town" I mean "the path of an oncoming apocalypse".

Episode 28 - Jabbered At By Weirdos

For this episode we read The Litany of Earth by Ruthanna Emrys. It's a sequel of sorts to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and thus we must also tangle with the thorny legacy of HP Lovecraft.

Episode 27 - He Has Ears

There's a lot going on in the third volume of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run and we do are best top cover all of it. That means we're talking about vampires, werewolves, zombies, and the very first appearance of John Constantine.

Episode 26 - The Ghost Is His Appendix

Lie down on the couch and rest your vermiform appendix because it's time to talk about The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.